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men call 911 and don't try to approach them yourself. they have been missing eight days and are combing a throw mile vicinity. and they could be anywhere. thanks for watching. special edition of the o'reilly factor is on on tonight. >> the battle for america's children. tonight we investigate the use of tonight we investigate the dangers of marijuana use. society they are going to target teenagers. they will make their money off of people like myself who are addicts. and i just don't think this is the kind of thing that makes our country stronger. >> how harmful is texting and internet to our kids? amy and mccain discuss the dangers. >> every day 160,000 kids skip school because they are bullied and the internet is just making it worse. >> also, jesse watters hits the streets of denver to find out just how destructive marijuana use can be firsthand. >> what do you do on a daily
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basis? >> welcome up. >> so if someone came to you and said i have this job it pays about auto thousand. >> if i'm in an office, i can't do it. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. is america going to pot? that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. as you may know, i believe the increasing acceptance of marijuana among american young people is a bad thick for the country. and now even some liberal media people are agreeing with me. tina browne, former editor of "newsweek" tweeted quote: legal weed contributes to us being a fatter dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the chinese unquote. that'seing true. the stats back it up let's take it step-by-step. if you use any intoxicating
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agent leave reality. not satisfied with current state of mind, high, buzz dollars, blasted whatever. some adults canie handle that on occasion, some cannot. it's literally russian ryu lead. but putting intoxicating agents in the hands ofon children can be devastating. according to research by the society for the study of addiction, teenagers using marijuana before the age of 18 are two to four times more likely to develop psychosis compared to those who don't. one in six children who try pot will become addicted according to the national institutes of health, latest study by that organization says that nearly 2% of seniors in american high schools right now admit to smoking marijuana recently. that's an incredible stat. so why is this all happening? one of the reasons is because a pot legalizers have made the drug glamorous and a the media has played along. celebrities like snoop dogg, willie nelson and miley cyrus flaunt. very few speak out against it now more bad news. combine the drug aspecht
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with the internet. according to the report by the american academy of peed at tricks, 75% of 12 to 17-year-olds in the u.s.a. have cell phones and virtually all of them text. 33% of teenagers send more than 100 text messages a day. and 66% of teens say their parents have impose nod rules regarding texting at all. there is a kicker. study by the university of winnipeg in canada says students who text more than 100 times ahe day are 30% less likely to be ethical or principled in life. are we getting all this? young people in america are combining drugs alcohol and high tech to build false lives to run away from reality. in china young people are encouraged to compete be disciplined, to live in the real world not here. and, again very few voices speaking out against drug and tech abuse. this is an epidemic that will lead to a weaker
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nation. anybody who tells youis differently is lying to you. that's the memo.at now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from newberry point, massachusetts dr. keith ablow a psychiatrist. here in new york cityty dr. karl hart. author of the book high price. all right. kids and pot. you don't recommend that, right? >> of course not. >> i don't recommend kids taking alcohol or smoking tobacco. >> any intoxicants at all bad for them? >> that's right. >> so we he have some common ground? >> absolutely. anybody who can think would agree with you. >> all right. thank you. and i appreciate that. texting. you know it's an addiction. it's going crazy. are you aware of that right? >> no, i'm not aware that it's an addiction. >> you don't think text something an addiction among some children now. >> it all depends on how you define addiction. >> they have to do it and. >> you are compelled to do this show every day. >> i get paid to do this show i wouldn't do it if i didn't get paid to do it.
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it's not a compulsion it's a business decision. >> you get paid to do it. >> yeah. >> there is a reason for you to do it. >> is there a reason for a kid. >> does not disrupt what you are doing. >> if you had a son or daughter. >> i do i have three boys. >> in their teens. >> two in the teens. >> and if they are texting more than 100 times a day you don't have a problem with that. >> the thing is i have a kid in ivy league institution a teenager. my main sort of concern is how well he does in school. he texts quite a bit but he also gets all a's in school. >> yeah, but i don't know -- you want the whole child to develop not just. >> precisely you just said it. >> i don't know if the text something leading to that dr. ablow you see it differently. i see a coming storm here, a tsunami building with the drugs, the soft drugs the pot. and the high tech abuse. i think it's abuse. i think the kids texting 100 times aday. that's abuse go. >> absolutely. this is a perfect storm. we have talked about this, bill. i have written about it. you have written about it.
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bottom line any time you attempt to exit the real world in favor of a fantasy land where your emotions aren't troubling to you there is a price to pay for that those are called addictions. texting, the incessant use of facebook. the use of marijuana now which parents by the way they are caving. they are telling their kids oh it's just marijuana oh, you just sell marijuana? >> i don't know how many parents would do that. >> they are. they are. >> we all know there are permissive parents but i still believe in this country they are a minority. i think parents don't want their kids involved with intoxicating agents. most parents most responsible parents. there are parents who are addicted and responsible. let's stay on the texting and the games. because the study shows from winnipeg interesting study that the parents, they are lost here with the texting. they are not really on this remember texts can be erased right away. so you literally have to be following your kid around,
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all right to know. >> yes. >> what that kid is doing and the interaction. therefore, the children are bold now. the children are doing things. >> yeah, of course. >> you would never do on the telephone because you might be overheard. go ahead. >> this is the trojan horse because even the people who can identify this as a problem are using texting. you can say they are using it less. but they are still on the drug. we're going to find out that this disempowers people. it deposits them in a virtual world where their feelings don't need to have integrity. where their intentions can be the same as a pot smoker's. non-motivational. looking for the next high. >> and you say to that? >> well, i don't know what to say because. >> let me frame it we are becoming a weaker nation because of all of this. under 30 is going to have to take over some day, all right? and they are lost in this
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world bill, let's slow down, think about the last three guys who occupied the white house. they all smoked marijuana in their youth right? the last three guys and not chronically one didn't inhale. >> wait, hold up. you didn't believe that when he said that? >> i believe everything the president is telling me. all right? >> bush was an alcoholic and dealt with it and obama we're not exactly sure how serious he was involved. but as i said in the talking points, some can handle but some cannot. >> that's exactly right. >> and the prevalence of this is overwhelming now. >> a lot of casualties on the battlefield. >> let's not talk about the statistics. let's talk about the data in 1978 the recent number of marijuana smokers in the 12th grade it 37% of the 12th graders said they smoked marijuana recently, today that number is down to 22%. >> not the number i just gave. >> your number is wrong. >> take it up with the national institutes of
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health, all right they are the one. >> i'm a council member on the national institutes of health. your number is wrong. i'm telling you it's 22% of seniors who smoke marijuana in the past month. that's a fact. >> i doubt it's a fact because we don't get this wrong researchers is wrong. >> go ahead dr. ablow. >> the doctor has it wrong. the bottom line is this is not 1978. 1978 people weren't carrying cell phones. they weren't using facebook. they won't depositing themselves on youtube and being surprised by being arrested after peteing somebody up on youtube. they are like wait, this is the real world? they're not going to get arrested for this? i thought it was all fun and games. we are weakening young people because we are suggesting it's okay to be high all the time. >> i don't know if we are suggesting that. >> i think we are. because we are saying have a facebook account. use marijuana text, and by the way we have the
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government economy. >> there is a a difference between not condemning and encouraging. by the way dr. hart is correct. 23% of seniors in high school that say they are smoking marijuana on a regular basis. that's a lot. that's a lot. would you say that's a lot? >> nowhere near the 37% we saw in 1978 to 1980. so i'm telling you that we need to make sure we keep this in perspective. >> all right. good debate. thank you. >> coming up on this special edition of the o'reilly factor. former rhode island congressman patrick kennedy and peter's son christopher both recovering substance abusers speak out about the dangers of marijuana to our children. >> too much damaging drugs on the planet are both legal, alcohol and nicotine. we don't need another legal drug. legalization will increase prevalence, our youth are at risk.
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legalized pot, colorado says it collected $2 million off pot sales in january. the first month of legalization out there. but i believe the amount of damage being done it coloradoans in the addictions social else will cost that state far more than it's taking. in of course i could bean wrong. joining us from washington patrick kennedy former k congressman from rhode island and kennedy laufford. author of the book. both were cub stance abusers at one time. mr. kennedy, i understand you are against the legalization of marijuana why? >> i had a mood disorder and i'm also in recovery because i'm also an addict. and with another drug being commercialized, one that actually has the for-profit motive of hooking new consumers, they are going it target teenagers. they are going it make their money off of people like myself who are addicts. and i just don't think this
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is the kind of thing that makes my stronger family stronger. >> pro-pot people say it's not addictive harmless, less harmful than alcohol and unfair to have alcohol legal and pot not. and you say? >> i say two wrongs don't make a right. and the marijuana today is in beverage form. it's in candy form. can you eat it now, i was asthmatic so i didn't go down the route of marijuana. but if it were available to me today i could have eaten it like they can out in colorado, it would have been a totally different game. this is a scary thing. people think this is smoking couple joints every other weekend. this is a whole new commercial industry and that should tighten people is their profit motive will be to marketing. this we want demand reduction and yet this is going to be increasing demand for addictive substance, that's my problem with it. >> mr. lawford you are a
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libertarian kind of guy but you are against the legalization of marijuana as well? >> i'm prayer merrily against it because of what it might do to young people. two most dangerous drugs on the planet is alcohol and nicotine. we don't need another legal drug. legalization increase prevalence. youth are at risk. studies demonstrate not only the addictive capabilities of marijuana but the difficulty in treating people who are addicted to marijuana. one in six young people smoke it chronically. chronic use of marijuana obliterates ambition and leads to potential psychosis, all sorts of mood disorders. it's not a good drug. it's not a matter of policy to legalize. >> okay. now, both of you guys are democrats and fairly liberal. i don't know your politics as precisely as i should, perhaps, but the liberal wing are the ones driving. you see he in colorado, for example, it breaks down and there are libertarians.
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there are libertarians woodstock go out there? >> initial way. i understand that george soros pushed this thing primarily because of the inner city and it's true young african-american males are getting targeted by police departments in the inner city in terms of arrests to show cops how to do drug busts basically. legalization is not the answer to that issue. >> that's why you think that the -- do you concur, mr. kennedy. do you think it was a racial social issue that drove the left to want it? >> yes. i think it's driven by the racial. keep in mind, african-americans, minorities are discriminated against throughout the justice system is. just by legalizing this, you are not going to get rid of the discrimination in the application of laws in this country, we should address that and make it a separate issue.
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not conflate addressing incarceration with the decriminalization and legalization. >> okay. but i will point out to both of you and you both made very good points tonight. >> neighborhoods most impacted by drug addiction in this country have been black neighborhoods, all right? >> that we know of. >> well, they have been and that crack epidemic when all of those mandatories were put in, that wiped out a generation and that's why it was there. >> that's correct. >> bill, there are are 8 tombs as many liquor stores in minority neighborhoods than there are in white neighborhoods. >> you got it? >> same thing is going to have with legalized marijuana. it's going to target the most vulnerable in our country. >> excellent point. i can't thank you guys enough for coming. in you guys made excellent points. >> next up, the rise of the machines. texting. the internet, and the addiction that comes with it how can parents protect their kids? >> i am going to be like gladys crafts when it comes to my children's privacy.
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kelly file segment tonight. protecting the kids. with the rise of the machines american children are subjected to adult things it. we just heard very early age. also they are constantly distracted by the net. they have their little things in their hand especially teenagers. that's changed everything. with us now ms. megyn kelly has three young children to protect. by the time these kids are adults your kids are adults cyberspace thing is going to be ten times worse than it is now. >> yes, it is. >> have you and your husband planned on how you are going to deal with this kind of thing. >> doug is an author so he gets to live in fantasy world of novels. he doesn't think about it yet. i work in news where the darkest corners of society
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can confront you every day and not just on this show at this particular moment. cover the news in general. >> got it. so you are forced to think about it even though my children are nowhere near surfing the net. my oldest is five? >> by the time is he seven he is going to be going like this on the computer. >> teach it in the school now. >> can i tell you in new york city kindergarten, the test to get into these kindergartens is is on an ipad. >> whether you want them to be introduced to it or not they are going to be. >> what conclusion or what's the headline in kelly's defense of the kids? >> i think active parenting because i just don't think you can keep your kids away from it think about when i was a kid the big danger was tv. what's going to be on tv. kids are watching too much tv. >> gilligan's island was terrible. >> at the time it seemed like very low brow and what kind of an influence is this having on our children. if you have active parents who care about you and stay involved and talk to you. >> not enough. i will tell you why it's not enough. it's the peer pressure. listen to me.
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i'm older and wiser. it's the peer pressure. once the kid gets into adolescents and teens they are all on these things. they are all texting. >> right. >> if you look at the texts good kids, crude language, terrible things saying about other children, no restraint. if you said those words and you heard them. >> that's why there is point 2 with my plan acting involved parent who has a good relationship with my child. point 2 is be a good spy i'm going to be like gladys kravitz comes to my children's privacy. i'm going to tell them i'm going to see everything. i'm getting the program where can i read all of your texts. i'm going to go review history. >> they can even get around that now with this instagram stuff and delete and there are things that kids know i'm a ludite and stossel is right i don't have anything like that. >> i don't have a blackberry or blue berry kelly i think that's what i do. >> you compensate for the rest of the people.
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>> i'm here doing you a favor he insults me. >> what's the name of your show. >> give me a break. >> what's the name of your show. >> as you well know because you always talk about invented it. >> i invented your show. kids' personalities change and if you are assaulted you can be assaulted on the internet. when i was growing up we had fights on th and this and that and that was face to face. now you can be assaulted. >> that's already morphed. the mean girls calling my home and doing terrible prank phone calls to me that's a form of torture that can come and get. >> you compared to what it is now and then the intrusion of what they can see. they can see every movie in the world, all right? there are some blocks realistically you can't block everything. >> hand helds there are no blocks. you can go out and your friend has the big hand held
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or the ipad and bingo there is the exorcist linda blair saying all this and 10-year-olds looking at it. >> hopefully you can stay in touch enough with your child. >> that's a hope. >> that's a hope you don't want to dine on. >> most dangerous and challenging time for adults. >> what do you do. >> there is no answer. >> let them consume it. >> you have to try to challenge their consumption. try to get them out into the fresh air. try to tell them there is other things in life rather than stupid machine. >> actively involved in sports. >> travel them. take them places, right. that kind of thing. >> plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. while many americans want to legalize pot a new study says it deficit states kids. we'll have some new information for you. >> what we know about marijuana and the teen brain is that one in every six teens will become addicted to marijuana and that long-term marijuana use effects problem-solving memory and iq. >> right back with it. ♪
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>> thi are pouring across the border into turkey and 13000 making the crossing in ten days. they have taken one town back from isis and are taking back another. back to o'rielly. marijuana, evidence continues to mount that it is devastating if children use it new study by the australian government says if teenagers use pot daily they are 60% less likely to graduate high school, also they are seven times more likely to attempt suicide. in addition, a book by former secretary of health joseph how to raise a drug free kid says today's pot is
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10 times more potent than the stuff the hippies were using back in the 1960s joining us from seattle psychiatrist dr. nick weis and dr. daniel glover, also a psychiatrist that deals with children. i believe marijuana is dangerous to american kids and that fact is what i i believe has been understated by the media dr. or am i wrong. >> you are right. we have been hearing in the media about illnesses. what we know about marijuana in the teen brain is one in every six teens will become addicted to marijuana. long-term marijuana use effects problem-solving memory and iq. in one study that was done in colorado, what we found was that 75% of youth in a treatment center were getting their marijuana from adults with legal marijuana registration cards. so it's become more accessible. it's become more socially accept tillable and i think it's a big problem.
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>> could you concur? >> i agree it's a significant problem and certainly the harms of marijuana on the adolescent brain are being increasingly documented and at the same time teens see it as less risky than ever, less risky than they ever did before. they see it as less risky than alcohol. they see it as less risky than cigarettes. and so that inevitably is going to lead them towards increased use. >> okay. so you are in washington state, which now has legalized marijuana. and teenagers then pick up that okay, so if the old folks can smoke it, why can't i? that's just normal. that's what they did with alcohol and that's what they are doing with marijuana. and as dr. bober pointed out, the studies say that people with -- buying legal marijuana are giving it to the kids. we expect that to happen in every state that legalizes do we not dr. weis? >> well, the use of marijuana by teens is really
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a nationwide issue. >> i understand that almost taking on tsunami like proportions because it's been glamorized by the media. no question it has been. >> the real shame is that the risks haven't been acknowledged. >> that's part of the glamourization. >> teens really do need to know about those risks. >> to hear it but the media doesn't want to do it because the media wants it legalized. dr. bober, when you see a child and as you said 15% of all-american teenagers of all stripes become addicted to marijuana. when you see this happen, it's not something that's easily overcome, is it? >> no, it's not. and there is a lot of evidence that suggests that marijuana is a gateway drug to other drugs. and the younger they start the worse it is. so this is really a conversation that we need to be having and we need ofocus on both aspects of the argument. >> what about the freedom aspect of it? you know, americans who want legalized marijuana say look, i can do what i want with my own body and i'm an
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adult and all of, this and society is putting marijuana users in jail, which is a falsehood. we have debunked that here that's a powerful argument that the media has embraced. >> i think if you are an adult, you should be able to do what you want, the indirect effect that's having is teens are getting their hands on marijuana and we know that teens have a developing brain and particularly sensitive to the effects of marijuana. and that puts us all at risk when we put our kids at risk. >> and dr. weis, when you spoke marijuana it's a pretty pungent situation so you can't do it if you are an adult in the home without your kids knowing about it very famous person told me that's his great regret that he smoked marijuana and his children knew it even though he did it in another room in private, they smelled it and then they got involved with drugs and he feels guilty about it so i think that's inevitable is it not? >> well, it is often a multigenerational issue and it's true that if adults don't act as role models for
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their kids and also dialogue with their kids about the harms of drugs then kids are going to follow in their footsteps and make bad choices. we really need to mobilize parents and other responsible adults to get involved in the lives of kids in a deep way in a way when they talk about the risks of marijuana those kids are actually going to listen. >> if he he they're using it at the same time and friends have legalized it and the media is glamorizing it, it's an awful lot for a kid to overcome. it really is the curiosity factor alone. as you said, once a teenage mind or the child mind gets involved with intoxicants boom, their childhood is over. doctors, thank you. when we come right back, cyber bullying, it's a big problem these days, we talked to dr. david swimmer and senator mccain daughter megan. >> kids skip school because they are bull idea and the
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>> um. >>um real, causing kids to submit suicide wreaking havoc in private and public schools across the country. what's your take on that. >> i agree it's an sleuth epidemic. 160,000 kids skip school because they are bull idea. people bull idea and bullies are more likely to have psychological problems as adults. epidemic and the internet is making it worse. >> were you ever bull idea as a kid because you a famous dad and stuff like that. >> not to the severity that people that commit suicide do but i'm grateful the internet wasn't around when i was growing up. >> you are being attacked on the internet now just because you are an adult who has famous dad. are children meaner now than they were when you were growing up -- i'm older obviously, when i was growing up, kids were pretty mean back then. there were a lot of fights in my neighborhood mostly over bullying, but i see this kind of sta disparticular streak because they can hide behind the internet. you don't have to go out in the school yard and risk
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taking a shot to the head, you do it in your own basement or whatever. i think it's a huge problem. >> the anonymity of the internet is making it so much worse. >> are they meaner though? are kids meaner today? >> i don't i don't know if kids are meaner. they have a different kind of platform. they can attack online and post pictures there is a bunch of things going on. with shaming on the internet. it's very scare i can't understand the idea that you can -- you are so young and so many different tools tools tools with cameras. take a picture 18 come back to haunt you when you are 30. >> parents and grandparents got to watch that like crazy. >> what's your problem? >> what's my problem? my problem is you lied to me sweetheart. from the second that you knew you wasn't 15 you should have told me. you didn't. when you found out for the first time what were you thinking in you didn't know then that something was wrong? what attracted you to the material? do you feel that this is an underreported crime? do you feel there has been a lot of publicity? on this program. we do a lot of of this kind of reporting. >> i wanted to make the movie because i have been involved with this
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organization called the rape treatment center from santa monica california. board of directors of the rape foundation. i met countless victims. child victims of sexual assault and rape and their parents and after speaking to many fathers, i was really moved by how this kind of trauma impacts the entire family. >> absolutely. >> and fathers that i spoke to talk about a kind of incapacitating rage. >> why did you want to get involved with this? why did you get on the board of that? for a several issues. directed towards women education, prevention and where they can go for assistance as victims. and there has been a gap trying to get the message out to men. man in show business, some kind of celebrity to try to get the message out and for personal reasons i have many friends that are victims of child victims of sexual assault. >> really? >> yeah. >> and two former girlfriends, long-term relationships were also
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child victims of sexual assault. >> as you know we did the jessica's campaign here and how out in front of that. did you when you made it big on friends, did you say to yourself is i have an obligation now. >> 100%. >> recidivism and famous. >> 100%. >> i have got a crisis. >> yeah but i have got couscous. >> the crush of celebrity first happened i was approached by dozens of organizations. i took a step back and instead of spreading myself thin and lending my name here and there. i thought all right i'm going to dedicate all my resources, my talent, my energy, my commitment to one that means the most to me. and because for personal reasons as i described this was the one. i felt i could really make a difference. >> coming up, former drug czar and education secretary bill bennett fires off some pretty disturbing stats about marijuana use. >> harvard northwestern, oxford kills motivation entries with memory. entries with concentration. start smoking pot in your
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science is making overwhelming evidence how dangerous pot is. i didn't have this evidence when i was drug czar with 8 -'90. studies out of oxford, kills motivation, entries with memory and concentration. how is this start smoking pot teen years stay with it once a week, not every day once a week lose 8 iq points. that's a lot. >> but here is why the public opinion is changing. two reasons. the baby boomer generation, which started the pot craze in late 1960's, a lot of them have stayed with the drug. and they feel it's benign. they say it didn't hurt me, so think passed that down to their children and grandchildren. then there is the whole the alcohol is worse argument that has gained traction among younger people. how do you respond? >> first of all the marijuana today is three to five times more powerful. 3% thc. tetra hydro can some of the
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dispensaries where i'm heading. ground zero. maureen dowd, columnist for the "new york times." >> she ate a cookie and she wanted to -- 30%, 40%. >> she wanted to become -- >> she thought she had died she said. >> she was hallucinating. >> stronger pot now. there are so many people in the united states who use marijuana illegally. tens of millions. i don't think it is hundreds of millions but tens of millions of people. they want to get high and they don't want the government to tell them they can't. it's the libertarian view. >> governor of colorado said it was a mistake. >> he said if we could protect the kids from getting it. plus he has seen the advertisements the candy bar advertisement. >> it is a subliminal thing.
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the kids can get it anyway so regulate it tax it. you know you have heard this same thing. so here is my key question. you write a book. the pot heads aren't going to read the book. they are not. anybody who likes marijuana are going to laugh at you. you are a conservative. so what good does it do for you to write the book? >> start with republicans. it is disappointing that a lot of republicans are on the wrong side of this issue. the libertarian side of this issue. the main reason for writing the book is to stop this freight train because a lotf opeople are going to get hurt. >> i agree. i think intoxication of any alcohol or drugs, any drug damages people particularly children. once they get involved they are never the same again ever. so that message gets blunted by the cynical media which thinks it is cool to smoke pot. the rap industry is devastated.
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poor children both black and white. and you have a culture that you and me we are the dinosaurs and we are bad, mean people and all of that. >> just before we conclude that we are posed to people having fun and a good time you want something that opposes a good time? marijuana. it interferes with the pleasure center of the brain so that after a while it is the only thing that makes you feel good. not anything else. not sports not entertainment. >> once you get involved with the drug world or alcohol, too and you sit at the bar and going like this then everything else recedes in your life. that is why we have the terrible addiction and alcoholism problem we have. next up an inside look on what pot and other drugs can do to society. watters' world hits the streets of colorado. >> are you homeless?
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>> we've seen about a 153% increase. they are here in the denver area because of the legalization of marijuana. >> i've got to catch a glimpse. >> what state did you come from? >> originally from maine. >> beautiful state. >> yeah. until the gangs started showing up. >> here comes trouble. >> what's her name? >> kush. >> i met a cat named kush. >> i moved here from california. >> why did you move here? >> i'm a hash maker. >> you smoke a lot of weed? >> not a lot. yeah, i smoke a lot. >> what's your name? >> i'm giggles. >> who are you? >> what do you do on a daily basis? >> wake up, smoke a morning bowl. >> go to the library, use the computer for a few hours. >> facebook aalcoholic, of course. >> you're homeless and have a facebook page. >> oh, yeah. >> i'm going to have to friend you. what are you doing now? >> medicating myself. >> what's your ailment? >> my what? >> we have to start being more responsible.
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>> are you homeless right now? >> displaced, but not homeless. >> do you have a plan to get back up on your feet? >> i'm standing. >> it's more of a euphemism. excuse you. >> what are you, my mother? >> i 'have been on these streets since i was 10. >> my dad was a decent drunk. >> i have been homeless since february. dad is incarcerated and mom is a recovering drug addict. i think everybody should go through this. it humbles you. >> you would like to see me sleep on the street? >> i would like to see you on the street. >> do you have addictions? >> i have smoked weed most of my life, ever since i would say 6th grade. >> how is that working out for you? >> doing great. >> you sure? >> yeah. >> so if someone said i have this job that pays about 50,000. >> if i am in an office i can't do it.
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i have to be outside interacting with people constantly. >> you want to do what i do? >> probably. that wouldn't be that hard. >> you don't turn tricks, do you? >> hell no. what do i look like? >> calm down. >> let's go buy some weed. >> how many customers do you get on average? >> 120 to 200 on the recreational side. >> on a day? >> yeah. >> wow! >> what do you think about bill? >> bill's cool. very aggressive. >> keep it up, man. >> you watch watters world? >> i haven't. >> i'm waters and you're in my world right now. >> really? >> this is my world so right now your world is filled with legal recreational pot smoke from colorado. >> it's funny but it's not. most of these people i assume are unemployed or working odd
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jobs. >> or they're working for minimum wage. >> how do they get the money to buy the marijuana? >> sometimes you can do minimum wage and scrape by. sometimes it is so available people pass it around. >> where do they sleep? >> sometimes in shelters and other times if it's a nice temperature, they can sleep outside. >> do the city fathers in denver see this as a problem? >> i don't think they recognize it. a lot of the homeless shelters are doubling in population. but it's a different type of homeless species than there are in san francisco. in san francisco it is like hard core aggressive junkies. these kids in denver are more run aways looking for work. they are a little more educated and stoners who are trying to get by. >> in portland, oregon big drug fuelled homeless problem. i think denver is going to mimic that. >> it is definitely going in that direction right now. >> that is it for us tonight. thank you for watching this special edition. i am bill o'reilly.
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